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Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' supporters tour the country on recumbent bikes, and talk about their rural roots.

Jon Steinman 15 Jun 2008TheTyee.ca

Jon Steinman is producer and host of Kootenay Co-op Radio's program Deconstructing Dinner. A new podcast with notes is posted here every Friday afternoon. All Deconstructing Dinner podcasts can be found here.

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On May 7, 2008, Darrick Hahn and Sinisa Grgic departed Victoria from the zero-mile mark of the Trans-Canada Highway and embarked on a cross-Canada journey to raise awareness of Deconstructing Dinner. The pair are travelling by recumbent tricycles (or trikes).

On May 15, we aired a segment featuring their departure from Victoria, alongside a phone interview while they stopped over in Grand Forks, B.C.

This second installment of the Cross-Canada Trike Tour begins in the home of Deconstructing Dinner: Nelson, B.C. Hahn and Grgic were well taken care of in Nelson, receiving complementary meals from local restaurants and support from the local co-operative grocery store.

Host Jon Steinman pulled them into the studios of Kootenay Co-op Radio and probed further into why the two were so motivated to use their cross-Canada trip to raise awareness of an independent radio show. Of greatest interest to this episode is the story of Darrick Hahn himself, as he embodies many of the issues that are discussed here on the show each week.

Hahn grew up on a conventional dairy farm in the community of Monkton, Ontario, just north of the city of Stratford. Like many young Canadians growing up on farms, Hahn left his rural community as a teenager and migrated to the city. Having lived in Vancouver for the past two years, he's come to recognize that city life is far too removed from the earth, and his trip across the country is symbolic of his eventual decision to move back to the farm.

His story is an important window into the lives of Canada's young rural populations.

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Darrick Hahn and Sinisa Grgic, cross-Canada cyclists, Deconstructing Dinner Cross-Canada Trike Tour (Monkton, Ont. / London, Ont.) -- Cyclists Sinisa Grgic and Darrick Hahn are old high-school friends based in Southwestern Ontario, and are the proprietors of Fresh Entertainment. Darrick grew up on a farm in Monkton, Ontario and Sinisa, who is originally from Croatia, moved to Canada 17 years ago.

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